Josip Vaništa

Silver Line on White Background

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November 12, 03:36 PM GMT

Estimate

100,000 - 150,000 EUR

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Description

Josip Vaništa 

1924 - 2018


Silver Line on White Background

signed and inscribed Josip Vaništa  140/180 (on the stretcher); titled, dated, inscribed and signed Srebrna linija / na bijeloj pozadini / 1964 140/180 / J Vaništa  (on a label on the stretcher)

oil on canvas

140 by 180 cm.

55 by 70¾ in.

Executed in 1964-1989.

Purchased directly from the artist by the present owner in 2015

Nena Dimitrijević (ed.), Exh. Cat., Zagreb, Museum of Contemporary Art, Gorgona – Art as a Way of Existence,1977, n.p., illustrated

Ješa Denegri, Abstract Art in Croatia 2, Logos/Split/Zagreb, 1985, pp. 43-4, no. 44, illustrated

Davor Matičević, Nena Dimitrijević, Valérie Dupont and Pascal Pique, Exh. Cat., Dijon, Art Plus Université, Gorgon, 1989, illustrated

Zdenko Tonković, Josip Vaništa (monograph), Zagreb, 1993, pp. 40-1, illustrated

 Josip Vaništa, Book of Entries, Zagreb, 2001, p. 48

Marija Gattin, Gorgona - Protocol of Submitting Thoughts, Zagreb, 2002, pp. 57 and157

Josip Vaništa, introductory text by Tonko Maroević, ‘With a straightedge and graphite powder’, Zagreb, 2008, pp. 5, 31 (photograph from the exhibition in Zagreb City Galleries), 32 (illustrated), 34 (photograph from the exhibition in Vienna and Novi Sad), 42 (photograph from the exhibition in Zagreb, 2007)

Josip Vaništa: Olovka, kreda, projekti, izdanja 1948-2008, introductory text by Zvonko Maković, Zagreb, 2009, pp. 13, 30 and 35, illustrated

Milan Mirić (ed.), Tri eseja za J.V., Zagreb, 2012, p. 12

Nada Beroš (ed.), Josip Vaništa, Abolition Of Retrospective, Zagreb, 2013, pp. 12-3, 55, 63, 106, 182-3 and 189, illustrated

Ljerka Schiffler, Josip Vaništa – u čast Manetu – beskonačni štap, Zagreb, 2014, p. 22

Josip Vaništa, Rukovet, introductory text by Tonko Maroević, Zagreb, 2014, p. 12

Zagreb, Museum of Contemporary Art, Josip Vaništa, 18 March - 4 April 1965

Ljubljana, Modern Gallery Ljubljana, Josip Vaništa, 29 March – 30 April 2006, pp. 2, 4, and 6, illustrated

Zagreb, Gallery Nova, Josip Vaništa – The Time of Gorgona and Postgorgona, 2007

Croatia, Glyptoteka HAZU, Vaniština poputbina, 2007

Vienna, Ringturm Gallery - Wiener Städtische Allgemeine Versicherung Aktiengesellschaft; Novi Sad, Museum of Contemporary Art of AP Vojvodina, Vanguard and Continuity: Fragments of Croatian Architecture from Modernism to 2007, 2007-08

Zagreb, Museum of Contemporary Art, Abolition of Retrospective, 2013

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